MongoDB "open-source" Server Side Public License rejected
Summary
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer infamously warned of Linuxs GPL being "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual-property sense to everything it touches," he was wrong. It is unclear whether existing copyleft licenses clearly apply to this form of program combination, and we intend the SSPL to be an option for developers to address this uncertainty. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so its not surprising that Amazon would try to capitalize on the popularity and momentum of MongoDB. However, developers are savvy enough to distinguish between the real thing and a poor imitation," said Dev Ittycheria, MongoDBs CEO. As Devrim Gündüz, Principal Systems Engineer at EnterpriseDB , said, "I do appreciate the reasoning behind MongoDBs decision to move to the SSPL .
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